Published on May,25 2012 - by Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Last year around this time of France's Cannes film festival, movie producer Harvey Weinstein pondered how to turn a silent black-and-white film, "The Artist," into Oscar gold. His answer was to ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Be it Barnet or Hackney, a town falls apart when too high a proportion of its citizens doesn’t work. We were invited to a party recently, a sufficiently rare event for us that I was perhaps overexcited beforehand, and t ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by Forbes
...gs as in any other sector, including a good management team. If the startup is small and stacked with R&D types, but with strong intellectual property, we are more likely looking at acquisition by a large corporatio...
Published on May,25 2012 - by Reuters
... that the cancellation went through, a notification he said typically takes five to 10 minutes. "I think these types of shenanigans will dissuade people from investing in the stock market," said the 50-year-old pilot. "Y...
Published on May,25 2012 - by Forbes
Finding a leader for a $445 million hockey team doesn?t happen overnight. Montreal Canadiens owner and CEO Geoff Molson spent over a month carefully trimming a list of approximately 20 candidates before finally finding ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by Agence France Presse
Aniello Arena, the winsome Neapolitan in the running for best actor award at Cannes, is a former mafia hitman serving a life sentence who got his lucky break in a prison theatre company.Arena, 44, has won over critics ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The natural gas drilling rig count resumed its sharp decline this week as energy companies continued to slow activity in the face of low gas prices, data from oil services firm Baker Hughes showed on ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Mitt Romney has admitted that he is "haunted" by the gaffes that have plagued his presidential campaign, such as declaring amid an unemployment crisis that he enjoyed "being able to fire people". In an unusually candid ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tax regulators are preparing for a potential tax hike on profits earned by private equity managers such as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney known as "carried interest," to be ready if ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Turns out, geeks are inheriting the earth. Thanks to ubiquitous consumer electronics and the prominence of technology executives like Facebook Inc's Mark Zuckerberg and the late Steve Jobs of Apple ...